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The Indiana Daily Student

Surreal message comes through in \'Los Olvidados\'

Also known as "The Young and the Damned," this film's canvas is filled with the depressing brushstrokes of a juvenile named Pedro, who transforms from delinquent into an accessory for murder in an impoverished hell in Mexico. A far cry from Luis Bunuel's famed comedies, "Los Olvidados" earned Bunuel the best director prize at Cannes.


Los Olvidados - R
City Lights film series
Directed by:
Luis Bunuel
Showing Friday in Ballantine Rm. 013

Bunuel melds his trademark surrealism into the movie's dreamworld while keeping at the forefront the unflinching social message that trouble is inevitable when poverty is concerned.

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